What Is Light of the Soil Wellness System (LOTSWS)?

 LOTSWS — the Light of the Soil Wellness System — is a fully integrated approach to human renewal. It blends hydration, minerals,   circulation, inner soil, outer soil, emotional balance, and daily micro-patterns into one simple, powerful framework. Everything works   together to help you regain strength, clarity, warmth, stability, and sustained energy.

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 Beneath Our Feet and Within Our Bodies

 Beneath our feet is the memory of every living thing.
 Within our bodies is the memory of our history and who we were meant to become.
 Heal one soil, and the other begins to rise.

The Light of the Soil Wellness System – Four Pillars

These four daily supports — Hydration, Minerals, Fuel, and Daily Protocols — form the core structure of the Light of the Soil Wellness System and help your inner soil feel grounded, energized, and steady.

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Begin Your Light of the Soil Wellness Protocol

Start with one simple daily rhythm that activates hydration, minerals, warmth, circulation, and emotional soil. These small, repeatable steps create big, lasting change.

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Your Inner Soil

Your gut, blood, nerves, and hormones are all living in an internal “soil”. LOTSWS supports that soil with hydration, minerals, and real-food powders that your body understands.

  • Better circulation and warmth
  • Deeper, more stable sleep
  • Improved digestion and bathroom rhythm
  • Calmer mind and more stable energy

Your Outer Soil

The same powders can be used to supercharge compost, worm systems, and garden soil. Microbes get the same enzymes and nutrients your cells enjoy.

The Five Roots of Renewal™

A unifying framework at the heart of the Light of the Soil Wellness System. The Five Roots of Renewal™ explain why LOTSWS works — bringing together hydration, minerals, fuel, warmth, and emotional soil into a single whole-system model for human stability, clarity, and balanced energy.

Diagram of the Five Roots of Renewal showing hydration, minerals, fuel, warmth, and emotional soil.

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Written by: Marty Rogers
Category: Light of the Soil Wellness System - Founder Timeline

Light of the Soil Wellness System • Personal Timeline

Stimulant Abuse → Recovery Milestones → Long-Term Vitality

This is my documented shift from “borrowed energy” (stimulants + sugar + adrenaline) to real energy: sleep depth, calm focus, stable mood, better circulation, and sustainable drive.

Baseline change date: Oct 8 Former pattern: Large Dunkin Very Berry Energy (daily) Core outcome: Calm vitality (not adrenaline) Tracking: sleep • BP • mood • libido • movement

What “stimulant abuse” meant for my body

The daily stimulant + sugar hit pushed my nervous system into chronic “fight-or-flight.” Over time that can flatten sleep quality, raise stress hormones, disrupt appetite, and blunt libido.

 

Key Light of the Soil concept: Borrowed energy is paid back with interest. Real energy is built from rhythm.

My rebuild pillars Light of the Soil Wellness System (LOTSWS)

  • Hydration + electrolytes (steady blood volume + circulation)
  • Mineral rebuild (magnesium, potassium, zinc support)
  • Sleep depth (deep sleep drives hormone repair)
  • Movement (walk/ride = calm circulation + nervous system reset)
  • Breathing (interrupts adrenaline loops; restores parasympathetic tone)
Phase 1

Stimulant Era (Before Oct 8)

Daily high-stimulant intake created artificial drive and focus, but at the cost of sleep architecture, calmer blood flow, mood stability, and sexual consistency.

  • Common signs: wired-but-tired, sleep fragmentation, irritability, anxiety spikes
  • Sexual impact drivers: cortisol elevation + blood vessel constriction + sleep loss
Oct 8

Decision Point: Stimulant-Free Begins

I stopped the daily stimulant pattern and committed to rebuilding real energy. This is the “foundation day” I log as the start of my LOTSWS recovery arc.

Days 1–7

Withdrawal + Stabilization

The nervous system recalibrates. Energy can dip. Mood can swing. Sleep can feel strange. This is normal: receptors and stress hormones are resetting.

  • Wins to log: hydration consistency, walks, earlier bedtime, fewer adrenaline spikes
  • Focus: steady meals (protein + fiber), magnesium support, gentle movement
Days 8–14

Sleep Return + Cortisol Smoothing

Deeper sleep begins to return. Morning calm improves. Cravings and irritability usually lessen. This is where “real recovery” starts to feel possible.

  • Wins to log: fewer crashes, steadier mood, better morning outlook
  • Sexual health note: improved sleep is a major driver of libido and performance recovery
Weeks 3–4

Calm Energy + Circulation Rebuild

This is where many people notice: “I feel more like myself.” Focus returns without panic energy. Blood pressure and resting heart rate often improve.

  • Wins to log: better endurance, fewer anxious spikes, stronger daily rhythm
  • Sexual health note: calmer nervous system + improved blood flow = more consistent response
Months 2–3

Long-Term Vitality (Sustainable Drive)

The goal is not “hyped energy.” The goal is steady vitality: better sleep depth, stable mood, reliable libido, and daily momentum that doesn’t require stimulants.

  • Wins to log: stable appetite, consistent movement, calm confidence, improved sexual consistency
  • Foundation habits: morning light, walking/ride routine, breathing resets, clean fuel

Daily Log (copy/paste)

Use this to track the “inner soil” signals that matter most during recovery:

  • Sleep: bedtime / wake time / quality (1–10)
  • Calm: baseline anxiety (1–10) + triggers noted
  • Energy: morning / midday / evening (1–10)
  • Movement: steps + ride/walk minutes
  • Circulation: BP/HR (optional) + hydration
  • Sexual health: libido (1–10), confidence (1–10), erections (morning/other)
  • Nutrition anchors: protein + minerals + whole-food carbs
  • Recovery tools used: breathing resets, stretching, Moonbrew, etc.
Light of the Soil, LLC • Whole System Wellness

This timeline is part of the LOTSWS foundation: turning hard seasons into structured recovery, then using that structure to help others reclaim calm vitality.

Begin Your LOTSWS Journey

Your inner soil is ready to change. Start with hydration, minerals, real-food fuel, and a simple rhythm of breath and movement — the same routine that rebuilt Marty’s energy, clarity, sleep, circulation, and daily strength beginning October 9, 2024.

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Discover LOTSWS Dual-Purpose Powders

Every LOTSWS powder starts as clean, edible plant material — dried gently to preserve enzymes, minerals, and micronutrients. They nourish your inner soil and awaken your garden soil, compost, and worm systems.

One ingredient list. Two ecosystems. From the soil up.

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Your Daily LOTSWS Protocols

The LOTSWS Daily Protocol brings everything together — hydration rhythms, mineral activation, circulation warmup, breathing patterns, and emotional soil balance. Small steps done consistently create powerful internal change.

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Your Emotional Soil

Your emotional soil shapes your breathing, circulation, sleep quality, appetite, and daily stress response. Healing begins when your inner soil receives warmth, grounding, and consistent patterns of support. LOTSWS teaches simple ways to turn emotional spikes into stability, energy, and renewal.

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Start Your LOTSWS Transformation

Your inner soil is ready. Begin the Quick Start Guide.

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Your Inner Soil

Your circulation, nerves, digestion, sleep, energy, and emotional stability all live in your inner soil. When you hydrate it, support it with minerals, and feed it real-food fuel, your entire life begins to shift.

Learn About Your Inner Soil

Your Outer Soil

The soil beneath your feet is alive. Microbes, worms, roots, minerals, water, and organic matter work together to grow stronger gardens, deeper flavors, healthier plants, and richer compost. LOTSWS connects your own inner soil to the living outer soil that surrounds you.

Learn About Your Outer Soil

LOTSWS Hydration

Hydration is not just drinking water — it is the art of getting water into your inner soil so circulation, nerves, digestion, and tissues can actually use it. LOTSWS teaches you simple hydration rhythms that shift your entire day.

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What We Mean by Recovery

Recovery is not a label, a diagnosis, or a moral judgment. Recovery simply means the natural process of restoring function after disruption.

We recover from injuries, illness, exhaustion, nutrient depletion, emotional strain, poor sleep, chronic stress, and natural disasters. In every case, recovery happens when the right conditions are restored and given time to work.

Light of the Soil applies this universal principle to human wellness. Whether the disruption comes from stimulants, stress, overwork, poor nutrition, trauma, or prolonged imbalance, the body is capable of recovery when sleep, rhythm, nourishment, circulation, and nervous-system safety are re-established.

Recovery is not about fixing what is broken. It is about restoring what has been overused, depleted, or overwhelmed—so natural function can return.

Ready to Start Your LOTSWS Journey?

Begin with the simple daily protocol that changed my life: hydration, minerals, fuel, and movement.

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